Search Results: Returned 18 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 18
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[2022]., Juvenile, Scholastic Press Call No: 323 PIN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When young Tybre Faw discovers Congressman John Lewis and his heroic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the fight for the right to vote -- Tybre is determined to meet him. Tybre's two grandmothers take him on the seven-hour drive to Selma, Alabama, where Lewis invites Tybre to join him in the annual memorial walk across the Bridge. And so begins a most amazing friendship! In rich, poetic language, Andrea Davis Pinkney weaves the true story of a boy with a dream-together with the story of a real-life hero (who himself had a life-altering friendship with Martin Luther King Jr. when he was young!) Keith Henry Brown's deeply affecting paintings bring this inspiring bond between a young activist and an elder Congressman vividly to life. Both John Lewis and Martin Luther King, Jr. have left indelible marks on future generations. Will Tybre be next to carry the mantle?"--
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-- Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.By Earl, Saric2010, ABDO Pub. Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Military heroesSummary Note: Examines the life and military career of Air Force General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., discussing his childhood, the challenges he had to overcome as an African-American cadet at West Point, and his role as a Tuskeegee airman leader. Includes photographs and a time line.
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By Earl, Saric2010., ABDO Pub. Co. Call No: B DAVIS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Military heroesSummary Note: Examines the life and military career of Air Force General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., discussing his childhood, the challenges he had to overcome as an African-American cadet at West Point, and his role as a Tuskeegee airman leader. Includes photographs and a time line.
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-- Between the world & me[2015]., Spiegel & Grau Call No: CIVIL RIGHTS NF COA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: "For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? ... Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his myth-busting professors at Howard University, a trip to a Civil War battlefield with a rogue historian, a journey to Chicago's South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century America's 'long war on black people,' or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police"--Provided by publisher.
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c2008., Enslow Elementary Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the inspiring story of the first African American to be Secretary of State.
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2003, Greenwood Press Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Greenwood biographies,Summary Note: Presents a biography of Colin Powell, following his life from his childhood in New York as the son of Jamaican-immigrant parents, to the highest ranking member of the U.S. Army, to Secretary of State under President George W. Bush. Includes a time line and bibliography.
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c2008., Juvenile, Enslow Elementary Call No: 355.0092 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African-American HeroesSummary Note: Tells the inspiring story of the first African American to be Secretary of State.
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c2010., Abdo Pub. Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Military heroes.Summary Note: Looks at the life and military and political accomlishments of Colin Powell, one of the most respected generals and statesmen in the United States.
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c2010., ABDO Pub. Co. Call No: B POWELL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Military heroesSummary Note: Looks at the life and military and political accomlishments of Colin Powell, one of the most respected generals and statesmen in the United States.
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c2005., Juvenile, Enslow Call No: B POWELL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a profile of Colin Powell, the first African-American to be named chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the first African-American secretary of state, discussing his childhood and education, his military and political careers, and aspects of his personal life.
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c2005., Pre-adolescent, Lerner Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: History maker biosSummary Note: A biography of Colin Powell, who became chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as the first Afrian American to serve as Secretary of State.
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By Mara, Wilc2003., Primary, Children's Press Call No: Biography POWELL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Rookie biographiesSummary Note: Presents a brief overview of the life of the first African American Secretary of State.
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2005., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 921 POWELL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Black Americans of achievementSummary Note: A biography covering the childhood, education, military, and political careers of Colin Powell.
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c2001, Ferguson Pub. Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Ferguson career biographies
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2020., ONI Press Call No: GN B Gill Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Author Joel Christian Gill pens a graphic novel memoir about the brutality of his youth as the child of a single mother whose restlessness forced him to become a survivor of bullying at new schools, abuse at home, and violence on the streets. Despite this, and being forced out of his home, Joel found solace in art, and vowed to live a different life.
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1996., Juvenile, Rosen Publishing Group's PowerKids Press Call No: Biography POWELL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A Character building bookSummary Note: This book teaches the value of responsibility by taking examples from the life of the African American general Colin Powell.
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2021., Abrams ComicArts Call No: GN B Lewis Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Run Volume: Bk 1Summary Note: Graphic novel memoir describes Civil Rights activist and former congressman John Lewis' experiences dealing with the negative consequences of being involved in the 1960s protests, such as the ensuing violence that continued to take place against blacks, the push-back from fearmongers, and the rebellion among allies who thought change didn't come quickly enough and didn't reach far enough.
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Adult Call No: 921 HARRIS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth is informed by her upbringing. The daughter of immigrants, she was raised in an Oakland, California community that cared deeply about social justice; her parents -- an esteemed economist from Jamaica and an admired cancer researcher from India -- met as activists in the civil rights movement when they were graduate students at Berkeley. Growing up, Harris herself never hid her passion for justice, and when she became a prosecutor out of law school, a deputy district attorney, she quickly established herself as one of the most innovative change agents in American law enforcement. She progressed rapidly to become the elected District Attorney for San Francisco, and then the chief law enforcement officer of the state of California as a whole. Known for bringing a voice to the voiceless, she took on the big banks during the foreclosure crisis, winning a historic settlement for California's working families. Her hallmarks were applying a holistic, data-driven approach to many of California's thorniest issues, always eschewing stale "tough on crime" rhetoric as presenting a series of false choices. Neither "tough" nor "soft" but smart on crime became her mantra. Being smart means learning the truths that can make us better as a community, and supporting those truths with all our might. That has been the pole star that guided Harris to a transformational career as the top law enforcement official in California, and it is guiding her now as a transformational United States Senator, grappling with an array of complex issues that affect her state, our country, and the world, from health care and the new economy to immigration, national security, the opioid crisis, and accelerating inequality. By reckoning with the big challenges we face together, drawing on the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her, Kamala Harris offers in [this book] a master class in problem solving, in crisis management, and leadership in challenging times. Through the arc of her own life, on into the great work of our day, she communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values. In a book rich in many home truths, not least is that a relatively small number of people work very hard to convince a great many of us that we have less in common than we actually do, but it falls to us to look past them and get on with the good work of living our common truth. When we do, our shared effort will continue to sustain us and this great nation, now and in the years to come."--Dust jacket.
